The Daily Background

Oh man. Holy crap. The following is absolutely hilarious, except for the dying part:

At least he’s consistent. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who has been criticized by the press for his overly optimistic or downright misleading appraisals of our progress in Iraq, did it again Wednesday night — on a quite different subject. In remarks at the annual dinner for the American Spectator, Rumsfeld hailed a long ago Spectator piece by economist Milton Friedman calling for an all-volunteer Army — then added, Friedman is “still going strong.”

Friedman passed away the next day at the age of 90.

As it happens, Friedman was against the Iraq war. “What’s really killed the Republican Party isn’t spending, it’s Iraq,” he told the Wall Street Journal this past July, adding that he was “opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression.”

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